New Products

Octagon Systems released the XE-800, an SBC using the EPIC (embedded
platform for industrial computing) form factor. Sized midway between the
PC/104 and EBX form factors, the EPIC-based XE-800 is designed for
embedded military, security, industrial and mobile applications. It can
operate over a –40° to 75°C temperature range and features
four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports, two eight-wire serial ports, 48
lines of digital I/O, 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, CRT and flat-panel video and
PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion. A CompactFlash socket is available for
bootable and removable memory, up to 2GB. Companion XE-800 OS Embedder
kits, which include hardware and software for instant operation, are
available for Linux 2.6 and QNX.

PathScale announced the availability of the EKO Compiler Suite for
AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 systems. The EKO Suite offers C, C++ and
Fortran 9X compilers and beta support for 32-bit x86 compilation. The
PathScale compilers provide binary compatibility, with the ability to
mix and match the linking of GNU GCC and PathScale compiled libraries
and objects. The front ends are source-compatible with the GNU compiler
suite for C/C++. The Fortran 95 compiler provides support for the most
common Cray/SGI extensions, and in-line AMD64 assembly code also can
be issued. The PathScale Compiler is available in installable Linux
RPM format and is tested on SuSE, Red Hat and Fedora. The compilers
can be purchased as subscriptions to the full EKO suite or to separate
languages.

gumstix, Inc., introduced a new line of tiny Linux single-board processors
(SBCs) and peripherals. Based on Intel's PXA255 processor with XScale
technology, gumstix tiny boards measure 20mm × 80mm × 8mm. The line
includes two gumxstix boards and two waysmall computers. The gumstix 200x
and 400x boards feature 200MHz and 400MHz Intel PXA255, respectively;
both offer 64MB of SDRAM, 4MB of Flash, an OS, an MMC.SDT slot and
multiple I/Os. The waysmall 200x offers a gumstix 200x in a gumstix box,
and the waysmall 400x offers a gumstix 400x. Both gumstix boxes feature
two mini-DIN8 serial ports, one USB mini-B client port, a case and a power
supply. The boards are stackable and draw less than 250mA at 400MHz. A
GCC toolchain offers access to open-source software for porting. The
boards ship with 4MB of Flash, containing u-boot-1.0.0, kernel 2.6.4
and a root filesystem. The computers include a BusyBox implementation
with a Web server, a complete Linux kernel and a cross-compiler.

Version 9 of Visual SlickEdit, a development tool with a high-level code
editor, offers ten C++ refactorings to enable developers to improve the
structure of source code for better performance. Other new features in
version 9 include a Java GUI builder, full-screen editing and dual-monitor support, a backup history that stores changes locally, CodeWright
emulation and a new HTML Help and tutorial assistant. To simplify
builds, Visual SlickEdit offers a C/C++ auto-build system as well as
support for Ant. Visual SlickEdit includes integrated C/C++ and Java
debuggers. The advanced code editor features Context Tagging, which
offers language-specific coding assistance for a multitude of languages.
The DIFFzilla differencing system, which provides side-by-side file and
directory difference editing, works with three-way merge to support
version control.